New research reveals that the bird flu viruses may be capable of replicating at temperatures higher than an average fever, a ...

H5N1 bird flu has infected growing numbers of people worldwide in recent years, but this week saw something new: the first ...

In 1918, a flu pandemic caused by a strain of H1N1 infected 500 million people worldwide. It was known as the Spanish flu, and at least 50 million people died.

Influenza viruses are shifty entities. They accumulate small genetic changes on a regular basis, necessitating yearly updates to the flu vaccines because the prior year’s strain may not look much like ...

Type A viruses are the most significant for human and animal health, and they are all descended from avian viruses. The flu A ...

Health experts are warning global leaders to prepare for another pandemic as the H5N1 avian flu threatens to spread to humans. The Global Virus Network, a coalition of virologists, published an ...

How can we monitor the cross-species transmission of avian flu? The answer is FluWarning, a digital system that reports ...

Pigs could play a key role in ending the flu as we know it. That’s the message behind new research testing a computer-designed vaccine that protects swine from flu—and may one day do the same for ...

May 21 -- THURSDAY, May 21 (HealthDay News) -- Some older people may have partial immunity to the new H1N1 swine flu virus because of possible exposure to another H1N1 flu strain circulating prior to ...